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Scott Hagley

Scott Hagley is the W. Don McClure Associate Professor of World Mission and Evangelism at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary and the author of Eat What is Set Before You: A Missiology of the Congregation in Context. His research focuses on the ways congregations learn to cultivate partnerships for the well-being of neighborhoods. Before coming to Pittsburgh, he was a pastor at a church of neighborhood-based missional communities in Vancouver, Canada.

Essays

<strong>Baptism and the Gods of Capital</strong>

Everyday life gives us ample opportunity to fulfill all righteousness, at least as far as the gods of global capital are concerned. Building credit, contributing to a 401K plan, purchasing ordinary goods produced through an extraordinary supply chain, we participate in the enchanted world of mammon, in which money defies space and time to make and remake a world that bears its image. But in Matthew’s gospel, Jesus inhabits a different kind of story about God and the world, about empire and capital.